Georgia medical malpractice allegations

Georgia Medical Malpractice Allegations Involving Wellstar

Public Georgia complaint examples involving Wellstar facilities and care teams show how allegations about diagnosis, escalation, monitoring, and treatment are framed in filed malpractice cases.

8 8 case summaries from public case filings.

Provider allegation page Georgia medical-malpractice summaries grouped for easier comparison.

Allegations Summaries are drawn from public filings and are not findings of liability.

Overview

These examples collect complaint-based summaries involving Wellstar entities, facilities, or providers. The purpose is to give readers a careful, allegations-only way to compare the care settings and claimed failures described in public filings. No listed allegation should be read as a finding that any provider acted negligently.

Notice

This page only summarizes allegations from a complaint or source case summary. Allegations are not proof. Defendants are presumed not liable unless and until a court rules otherwise.

How to read these summaries

Each card is a short allegation summary. The linked case summary gives the fuller source-grounded description of the public filing.

The grouping is meant to help readers compare recurring care settings, medical issues, alleged failures, and claimed injuries without treating the allegations as proven facts.

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Wellstar Kennestone complaint alleges delayed MFM consultation and failure to offer cerclage during IVF pregnancy

This page concerns a public medical-malpractice complaint alleging delayed specialist consultation and failure to offer cervical cerclage or other interventions during a high-risk second-trimester IVF pregnancy at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Health System
Care setting: Wellstar Kennestone Hospital
Providers involved: Wellstar Kennestone Hospital / Carey A. Dobbins, M.D. / Joseph Bryant, M.D. / Lawrence Nathan, M.D. / Wellstar Medical Group, LLC
Alleged pattern: High-risk IVF pregnancy with cervical incompetence allegedly followed by delayed MFM consultation and no cerclage offer
Claimed harm: pregnancy loss and post-operative complications including syncope, transfusion, and chest pain

Wellstar Health SystemDelayed specialist consultationObstetrics and gynecology Read the case summary

Airway and respiratory failure case at Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center after car crash trauma

This page concerns trauma care at Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center in which severe chest trauma allegedly required prompt airway protection, but neither the emergency physician nor the trauma team secured the airway in time, and nursing staff allegedly failed to closely monitor the patient’s respiratory decline.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Health System
Care setting: Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center
Providers involved: Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center / Dr. Richisa Salazar / Trauma team / Nursing staff
Alleged pattern: Severe chest trauma followed by failure to secure the airway, failed emergent intubation, and poor respiratory monitoring
Claimed harm: wrongful death from oxygen deprivation

Wellstar Health SystemAirway emergencyEmergency medicine Read the case summary

Major chyle leak allegedly not identified or treated at Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center

This page concerns care at Wellstar’s Atlanta Medical Center after spine surgery, where a major chyle leak allegedly went uninvestigated and untreated while whitish fluid drained through a suprapubic catheter for 11 days before sepsis and multi-organ damage caused death.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Health System
Care setting: Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center
Providers involved: Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center / Medical staff
Alleged pattern: Post-spine-surgery chyle leak with liters of whitish fluid draining through a suprapubic catheter without investigation or treatment
Claimed harm: sepsis, multi-organ damage, and death

Wellstar Health SystemFailure to diagnoseSpine surgery Read the case summary

Wellstar complaint alleges bile leak and sepsis-treatment delay after gallbladder surgery

This page concerns a cholecystectomy at Wellstar that allegedly was unnecessary and performed without informed consent, followed by bile-leak and sepsis complications that multiple providers did not timely investigate or treat, along with asserted communication and coordination failures at the system level.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Health System
Care setting: Wellstar Health System
Providers involved: Wellstar Health System, Inc. / Dr. Grant Taylor / Multiple healthcare providers / Corporate defendants
Alleged pattern: Unnecessary cholecystectomy without informed consent followed by delayed investigation and treatment of severe complications
Claimed harm: Sepsis and chronic abdominal pain

Wellstar Health SystemInformed consent failureGeneral surgery Read the case summary

Transverse-myelitis case allegedly misdiagnosed as conversion disorder at Kennestone

This page concerns an emergency neurological presentation at WellStar Kennestone Hospital in which the consulting neurologist allegedly failed to order contrast MRI of the entire spine and prematurely diagnosed conversion disorder instead of considering transverse myelitis.

Provider grouping: Kennestone Hospital
Care setting: WellStar Kennestone Hospital
Providers involved: WellStar Kennestone Hospital / Dr. James Armstrong / Consulting neurologist
Alleged pattern: Neurological emergency in a healthy 18-year-old followed by failure to order contrast MRI of the entire spine and premature conversion-disorder diagnosis
Claimed harm: Serious, permanent neurological injuries

Kennestone HospitalMisdiagnosisNeurology Read the case summary

Wellstar Cobb Hospital complaint alleges failure to treat cerebellar stroke

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that providers at Wellstar Cobb Hospital failed to diagnose and treat a cerebellar stroke after a patient arrived with neurological symptoms.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Health System
Care setting: Wellstar Cobb Hospital
Providers involved: Wellstar Health System, Inc. / Wellstar Medical Group, LLC / South Fulton Emergency Physicians, LLC / Garret Douglas Anderson, M.D. / Matthew Joseph Lee, D.O. / Johnray Resurreccion Manao, RN
Alleged pattern: Alleged failure to diagnose and treat cerebellar stroke after emergency presentation with neurological symptoms
Claimed harm: cerebellar stroke, brain injury, and wrongful death

Wellstar Health SystemFailure to diagnose strokeNeurology Read the case summary

Wellstar North Fulton complaint alleges airway-management delay after facial gunshot wound

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that providers at Wellstar North Fulton Medical Center delayed securing a patient’s airway after a facial gunshot wound, leading to prolonged hypoxia and permanent brain injury.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Health System
Care setting: Wellstar North Fulton Medical Center
Providers involved: Wellstar North Fulton Medical Center / Mark L. Gravlee, M.D. / Sherieka S. Duncan, M.D. / Stephen A. McBride, II, M.D. / Woodley Mardy-Davis, M.D.
Alleged pattern: Alleged delay in securing airway after facial gunshot wound and progressive swelling risk
Claimed harm: prolonged hypoxia, severe permanent brain damage, and physical deficits

Wellstar Health SystemDelayed treatmentEmergency medicine Read the case summary

Wellstar North Fulton complaint alleges fetal-hernia diagnosis and delivery-delay failures

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that prenatal and delivery providers failed to diagnose congenital diaphragmatic hernia and failed to timely deliver a child after signs of fetal distress.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Health System
Care setting: Wellstar North Fulton Hospital
Providers involved: Nile Women’s Healthcare / Wellstar North Fulton Hospital, Inc. / Katherine Cooke, CNM / Lynn Fisher, RN-CNM / Jigish Sheth, D.O. / Rachel A. Yakrus, M.D. / Hughan R. Frederick, M.D.
Alleged pattern: Alleged failure to recognize congenital diaphragmatic hernia on prenatal imaging and delayed C-section despite fetal distress
Claimed harm: oxygen deprivation, permanent brain injury, and lung injury to a minor child

Wellstar Health SystemFailure to diagnoseObstetrics Read the case summary

Related allegation types

Airway / respiratory failure 2 case summaries Birth injury / OB emergency delay 2 case summaries Radiology / imaging follow-up 2 case summaries Sepsis / infection delay 2 case summaries Surgical complication delay 2 case summaries Bowel obstruction / abdominal emergency 1 case summary Delayed stroke diagnosis 1 case summary Informed consent / wrong procedure 1 case summary

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